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Raspberry or Strawberry Vinegar

A fruit vinegar made by steeping raspberries or strawberries in white wine vinegar and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: White wine and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,776 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Raspberry or Strawberry Vinegar

Ingredients

Directions

Infuse the fruit

  1. Place fresh fruit in stone jars and pour 1 quart of white wine vinegar over each pound of fruit.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 1 day, then pour off the vinegar and repeat with the same quantity of fresh fruit.

  3. Continue this process until the last batch, then strain through a canvas bag dipped in vinegar.

Sweeten and bottle

  1. Add 1 pound of sugar to every pint of vinegar and simmer for 5 minutes until nearly dissolved.

  2. Let it stand for 12 hours, then skim and bottle.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. White wine + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. White wine + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fresh raspberries or strawberries
Provide the main fruit flavour and aroma that the vinegar takes up over repeated steeping.
White wine vinegar
Extracts and carries the fruit flavour and gives the drink its sharp acidity.
Sugar
Sweetens the sharp vinegar and balances its acidity.

The step that matters

Simmering the sugar into the vinegar. Sugar must dissolve fully into the vinegar without boiling hard, since prolonged vigorous heat can darken and dull the fruit flavour. Stopping once nearly dissolved and letting it stand lets the syrup settle clear before bottling.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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